Yes, Paul is being inflammatory. But yes, you are totally incorrect abt unmasking and back door searches.
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Loose terminology leads to fuzzy concepts leads to *more* fake news. Want justice and accuracy both sides of aisle.
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Great! Then journalists should not affirmatively misinform when they try to refute inflammatory language.
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Replying to @emptywheel @Bwonk_Bwonk and
And so should you. Rand clearly was implying that warrantless "wiretapping" already targeted Trump, and "other" candidates.
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Replying to @okanogen2010 @Bwonk_Bwonk and
Rand was linking through to piece about back door searches. I absolutely agree it is inflammatory to call that "wiretapping," even w/quotes
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But it is also the case that claim Gov needs warrant to do what Paul linked to (and thereby was talking about) is utterly false.
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paul elledge Retweeted John Schindler
A good thread by someone that would know, not fuzzy conspiracy stuff.https://twitter.com/20committee/status/860466491380170752 …
paul elledge added,
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Yeah. Sorry. It's wrong. What Circa was referring to was back door searches. They involve no masking in the first place. Zero. None. Nada.
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So, what you clumsily call "backdoor searches", is just IC review of previously recorded convos btwn US citizens & targeted fgn agents? 1/
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1) Everyone that is not a spook calls it back door search 2) On 106K streams of data 3) Not just "IC" agents 4) CALL UP by US person ID
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5) Even Comey laughed at use of "masking' in this context--it's meaningless
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